But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
King Tirian to Jill in C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle
merely human musings on [my] life “between the paws” — faith, yearnings, joys, ambiguities, friendship, and discovery within the Realm I live and long for.
on bearing witness…
The baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit empowers our witness to Jesus. One would not be far from the mark if she were to suggest that the primary purpose of the Holy Spirit is to empower believers to be witnesses to Jesus Christ and the salvation that comes in His name. In other words, to be a witness to Jesus Christ, we first need a witness. In the New Testament, the empowered witness of the apostles was the second expression of the baptism of the Holy Spirit— the spiritual and tangible endowment of the Holy Spirit that came upon the upper room assembly…
kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.
- Scott McKnight
